Essays & Travelogues
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides res… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198798741
- Language: English
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When Your Heart Says Go: My Year of Traveling Beyond Loss and Loneliness
$17.95 Add to cartNearing fifty and grieving the death of her husband, Judy Reeves sells everything, buys an around-the-world airline ticket, and sets off on a solo journey. Months of solitude and loneliness in foreign… [more below]
- Author: Reeves, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425638
- Language: English
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The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country
$19.99 Read moreWhen she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn’t Disneyl… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1785780239
- Language: English
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Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
$31.00 Add to cartA vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions.
Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preservi- Author: Stein, Eliot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1250281091
- Language: English
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Abroad in Japan
$19.99 Add to cartFrom YouTube sensation Chris Broad, the hilarious and insightful memoir of a Brit trying assimilate into life in Japan as he unravels the wonders and eccentricities of one of the world’s most mysterio… [more below]
- Author: Broad, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1804992224
- Language: English
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
$16.95 Add to cartExtracts from two of Bell’s most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters
A woman far ahead of her time,
- Author: Bell, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1843915472
- Language: English
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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
$28.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each–from Ep… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1501129015
- Language: English
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Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey Into Muslim Europe
$16.99 Read moreA magical, eye-opening account of a journey into a Europe that rarely makes the news and is in danger of being erased altogether. Another Europe. A Europe few people believe exists and many wish didn’… [more below]
- Author: Hussain, Tharik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1784778281
- Language: English
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Project Escape: Lessons for an Unscripted Life
$17.95 Add to cartLucinda Jackson, a harried scientist and business executive, sets off to make a break from her corporate decades and have an “extraordinary” retirement. She launches into a five-phase “Project Escape,… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Lucinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1647424038
- Language: English
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Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water
$20.00 Read moreThe critically acclaimed Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom pays tribute to Venice–the city, its history, and its treasures
“Mr. Nooteboom . . . [has] a highly distinctive voice–- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Nooteboom, Cees
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264607
- Language: English
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Tracing Inca Trails: An Adventure in the Andes
$17.95 Read moreEddy Ancinas and her friends set out on on a seven-day horseback trip that takes them over Peru’s rugged terrain to 20,574-foot-high Mt. Salcantay, along an ancient Inca route, and then down into the … [more below]
- Author: Ancinas, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1647422779
- Language: English
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Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation
$19.99 Read moreDeclaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would “work out the details of the transfer of power etc. as soon as possible.” With over 300 ethnic groups spread across over 13,500 islands, the wor
- Author: Pisani, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351270
- Language: English
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In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale
$20.00 Read moreOnce upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small vil… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679727833
- Language: English
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Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City
$10.95 Read moreAnna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home-in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages o… [more below]
- Series: Literary Travel
- Author: Quindlen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0792242076
- Language: English
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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book – “An elegant, nonlinear reflection on how flying on a commercial airliner–even while painfully folded into a seat in coach–can lift the soul.” —The New York Times Boo
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Vanhoenacker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0804169713
- Language: English
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Going It Alone: Ramblings and Reflections from the Trail
$19.95 Read moreJoin author Tim Hauserman on his solo journeys through the Sierra Nevada and the forests of Minnesota. Hauserman shares his experiences hiking by himself through some of the most spectacular landscape… [more below]
- Author: Hauserman, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1647790654
- Language: English
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Fifty Places to Bike Before You Die: Biking Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations
$29.99 Read more“OMG views, killer hills and open road . . . everything a pedal pusher could ask for.” —Fitness magazine
“What makes this book exciting is that Chris included interviews with cycling-industry experts… [more below]- Series: Fifty Places
- Author: Santella, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1584799897
- Language: English
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Watermark
$17.00 Add to cartIn this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Joseph Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of forty-eight sh
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Brodsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539049
- Language: English
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The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World
$19.99 Add to cartThis 12th volume in the popular series presents the best travel writing by women for women that’s been done in the past few years. Adventures range from a trip into a new neighborhood to expeditions t… [more below]
- Series: Best Women’s Travel Writing
- Author: Spalding, Lavinia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1609521897
- Language: English
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Sailing by Starlight: The Remarkable Voyage of Globe Star
$29.95 Add to cartSailing by Starlight is the story of the adventure of a lifetime–in fact, of many lifetimes. In the early 1980s, retired geography professor Marvin Creamer set out to do what hadn’t been done for a t
- Author: Scher, Rod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493065696
- Language: English
